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When it comes to learning about American history, the best teaching aids are the people who inspired the lesson in the first place.
I came away with that conclusion after meeting the Rev. James Breeden, one of the “Freedom Riders” during the Civil Rights Movement.
In the early 1960s, the Freedom Riders rode interstate buses into the still-rigidly-segregated South in an effort to force the federal government to enforce a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stated racial segregation in public transportation violated the Interstate Commerce Act and was illegal.
The Supreme Court case, Boynton v. Virginia, overturned a judgment that convicted a black law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal designated “for whites only.”...
